IL2 Birds of Prey: Hints, Tips, and FAQ's Thread

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Akula

As far as i know, you can't use Flaps on Realistic difficulty.

yes you are right.

If you read the info in the encyclopedia on the difficulty modes you will see that arcade and realistic planes were ment to have automatic flaps. But in fact there is no automatic flaps, you have to make do without. This means some planes (especialy the Mustangs) perform far worse in a turn in realistic than in sim.